When PC Gamer goes into hibernation over the holidays, we'll be leaving you with the traditional treat of our GOTY awards. Through our exhaustive deliberations we've picked out a cracking set of games, but I've gotta admit: it was incredibly hard this time. Thanks to the knock-on effect of Covid-19 and the tragic axing and savage pruning of so many studios, 2024 has been a pretty bleak year. Delays and disappointments have become the norm.
Due to this, I confess that a couple of my personal GOTY nominations were largely perfunctory. Games that were undeniably fun, which I would absolutely recommend to people regardless of the year, but which I can't pretend I'm actually passionate about. This is not to say there haven't been some corkers. Metaphor: ReFantazio, for instance, is probably my all-time favourite JRPG, even better than Persona 5. But even with that still fresh in my mind, it wasn't quite enough to wash away the sense that, when I look back on 2024, I'm not going to recall it with any fondness.
